All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A writer's temperament is continually making him do things he can never repair. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Writers aren't exactly people, they are a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
What are you going to do? "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Junior writers $300; Minor poets—$500 a week; Broken novelists—$850-1000; One play dramatists—$1500; Sucks—$2000. Wits—$2500.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I grew up thinking that writer and secretary were the same, except that a writer usually smelled of cocktails and came more… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I want to write something new - something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned. As usual, F. Scott Fitzgerald” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Begin with an individual, and before you know it you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find you… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. And the only thing that will help you is poetry,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Progress was a labyrinth ... people plunging blindly in and then rushing wildly back, shouting that they had found it ... the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The strongest should come first in comedy because once a character is really established as funny everything he does is funny.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
“There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant activities… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
“Another dawn flung itself across the river; a belated taxi hurried along the street, its lamps still shining like burning eyes in a face… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
“I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills but getting few myself except those I read into men… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
“He was good looking, "sort of distinguished when he wants to be", had a line, and was properly inconstant. In fact, he summed up… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
What are you going to do? "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write -… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
“The latter was considered a good fellow and a fine leader, until a year later, when he disappeared with a mess fund of eleven… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
“It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
![“There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers—because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer—still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren’t people…” quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/38d/f-scott-fitzgerald-72_actors_there-s-a-writer-for-you-he-said-knows-e_438126.jpg)
